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Borotba: Everyone to the defense of the Turkish comrades!

May 14, 2020 Borotba

Struggle-La Lucha is sharing this statement from the banned Ukrainian Marxist organization Borotba (Struggle). May 14 — Before our eyes, we are witnessing an unequal confrontation between the Turkish state and our comrades, the communist […]

Hamburg: Refugees, supporters demand COVID-19 protection

May 11, 2020 No Pasarán Hamburg

On May 7, activists from the Lampedusa Group in Hamburg, Germany, gathered in front of the city hall to demand basic human rights that have been denied them since their arrival in the city in […]

Michael Lucas, immigrant organizer and friend of Soviet people

May 11, 2020 Greg Butterfield

Michael Lucas, editor of Northstar Compass and leader of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with the Soviet People, died in Toronto on May 4. He was 94. Lucas was a fixture of the […]

Yevgeny khaldei raising flag reichstag berlin

The Soviet victory in the Battle of Berlin ended Nazi terror

May 10, 2020 Bill Dores

May 9, 2020, is the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II in Europe. At least 80 million people died in the Second World War, 3 percent […]

Turkey: Political prisoners continue fight as Grup Yorum member perishes

May 7, 2020 Greg Butterfield

May 7 — Today, musician and political prisoner Ibrahim Gökçek died in Istanbul, Turkey, after a nearly yearlong hunger strike against the repressive NATO government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Two days earlier, Gökçek had […]

As Zimbabwe turns 40: End U.S. sanctions

April 25, 2020 Amadi Ajamu

On April 18, 1980, the people of Zimbabwe declared their independence from British colonizers after many years of armed struggle. Their struggle to maintain their independence continues today. Africans on the continent and in the […]

Remember the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising!

April 21, 2020 Lev Koufax

April 19 marked the 77th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. On that day in 1943, approximately 500 Jewish fighters launched an attack against Nazi forces occupying the city fo Warsaw, Poland. With its invasion […]

Turkey: Leftist musician dies after 288-day hunger strike against repression

April 6, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

By New Solution editor in chief On Friday, April 3, Helin Bölek, a member of the famous leftist music band Grup Yorum, died on the 288th day of the hunger strike till death (Death Fast) […]

Eight countries demand lifting of U.S. killer sanctions

March 27, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

The representatives of the governments of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Russia, Syria and Venezuela to the United Nations have addressed a letter to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, in […]

Hamburg police attack African refugee center

March 27, 2020 No Pasarán Hamburg

Hamburg, Germany — At around 6 a.m. on March 26, the Lampedusa tent at the Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (central station) was destroyed and possessions confiscated by a large contingent of police officers. One activist was arrested. […]